Spider man

[Martyn]

Before I joined this forum I considered myself to be a fine upstanding young man   but look what you have reduced me to: Crawling around the garden on my hand and knees, hiding in bushes, looking under rocks and sitting in the soil rocking backwards and forwards!

 

Here are the best of today's spider hunt, please feel free to correct my I.D.

 

Wolf spider, these live in the gravel and run like crazy!

 

Some sort of Orb spider enjoying it's lunch. I can safely say there are 100s, if not 1000s of these in our garden. I've observed that they always build their large webs in the vertical plain, then sit in the middle of them with their heads down and their backs to the sun.

 

Not sure about this one. Is it a Missing Sector spider? These seem to weave a web then sit in a corner and place their front legs out in front of them to feel the web.

 

I love this pic, probably my fave of the day. The ghostly spider in it's den finishes it's lunch and uses the fly's wings to wipe it's face

 

None of these images have been cropped, but I have edited them in Lightroom.

[NannyFerret]

You have excelled yourself, Marty!

The last one reminds me of Halloween.

[Paul]

The wolf is ace, and the next two are both orb spiders.

 

#4 could be from a horror movie, yes!
 

 

Paul.

[FUJI]

Martyn, you have done brilliantly with these......have you noticed too, that a Garden Spider, will deliberately shake its vertical web like crazy if it is touched?

FUJI

[annie]

good fun on ya knees in the bushes though martyn...

[Martyn]

Martyn, you have done brilliantly with these......have you noticed too, that a Garden Spider, will deliberately shake its vertical web like crazy if it is touched?

FUJI

 

No, I hadn't noticed that Fuji. I was as careful as I could be not to disturb any critters or their work, partly because I respect their workmanship and partly because I really don't like them. Spiders fascinate me, but to be surprised by one means someone could get hurt!